The Hult Prize Foundation staged its first Regional Summit in Manila, with three students from the New York University (NYU)-Abu Dhabi getting the nod of judges for their idea “Loveina” last April at the Samsung Hall SM Aura in Taguig City.

Among the 150 student entrepreneurs that made up the 35 competing teams, the team of Aeung Heon Brian Shin of South Korea, Jagan Narayanan Subramanian of Malaysia and Alex Wugi Zhang of Singapore topped the competition with their prototype for solving unemployment of teenage mothers living in Tondo, Manila.